Sunday, April 25, 2010

I made pickles today! Three litre jars of bread-and-butter pickles. Lidl had pickling cucumbers for sale so I brought home half a dozen.

Last time I visited my Aunt Sandie, she gave me some vintage canning books. She does tons of canning, and makes the best bread-and-butter pickles ever! The jars here are the French type canning jar, with the steel hasp and rubber gasket, and old canning books have instructions for using them.

The recipe I used called for brown sugar instead of white, and also cinnamon and ginger, so the pickles have a dark sweet syrup. They are really strong and aromatic. Such a treat to have bread-and-butter pickles in Ireland! And three big quart jars, I'm rich!